The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-13
FRESH FASHION NOTES.
Dress Novelties for the Late Autumn anc
Early Winter Wear.

Dress Novelties for the Late Autumn and
Early Winter Wear.
Country toilets are very gay.
Felt hats are taking the place or
straws.
Corsage with belts grow in popular
favor.
New corsages are elaborately draped
and trimmed.
New raglans are fuller in front and
longer al around.
Children's dressy frocks are again
made with low necks and short sleeves
Steel gray. alpaca or mohair. IS the
correct fabric for fall travelling suit.
Petticoats of jersey webbing are the
latest garment in this popular fabric
Polonaises with only hint of loop
ing will be worn over velvet and antique
broche moire skirts.
Some of the new rough woolen stuffs
come in large blanket plaids. Others in
niedium-sized checks.
Fancy hair pins are engaging the
time and thoughts of manufacturers OF
fancy jewelry at the moment.
A little touch of gliding on a good
piece of decorated delft gives it a.
wonderful resemblance to finer wares.
The favOrite colors in the new felt
hats are nut browns. grays, Gobelin
blues and tapestry greens, in fine.
graded shades.
Crepe lisse is n beautiful tissue, but.
never becoming to any complexion.
Still it remains fashionable for neck
lingerie.
There are some excellent limitations
of crown derby and royal Worcester
wares seen in the latest productions Of
American delft.
The same latitude in details is seen
this fall in fashionable garments, hats.
bonnetS. frocks and wraps that has
prevailed in bygone seasons.
A big bow of ribbon, with long loops.
placed on the top of the crown, with
the loops falling downward in front,
is the latest fancy in that trimming.
Among novelties in dogs furnishings
come waterproof covers with hoods eX-
tending over the head, and travelling
busters with breast pockets for puggy's
railroad ticket.
Wood, bronze and tawny tans arc
the preferred autumn tints for the prin--
cipal part of suits that are made of two
fabrics. Those colors combine we'll
with almost all bright ones.
! If a lady wishes to dress fashiOnably
she must beware of following the styles
as seen in the exaggerated cuts and
colored plates of fashion journals.
! Such pictures are caricatureS of cur
rent STYLES.
Among revivals in medieval style Of
dress, those for child rem, reproducing
the garments worn by little people in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
are very picturesque and also very conf
| Portable.
The importatiOns of French hats and
bOnnets shown to favored reporters es-
| tablish the fact that crowns are lower,
brims wider, and in the case of the bon
net the brim is pointed, a Ia Mother
Hubbard, over the forehead.
Steel, copper, gold and silver braldS,
and sometimes all of these combined,
are used in decorating jackets. suits and
wraps of various kinds. The patterns
in which these braids are put OIL are ex-
ceedingly novel and very elaborate.
The combinations of color, tinseT-
plush, felt, velvet. broche. gold, silver
and black. white. and cOlOred laceS,
feathers and mock jewel ornaments in
millinery this fall shows that we are to
have winter of exceptional splendor in
dress.
1t is the fashion at present to wear
many brilliant-headed pins in the hair
real diamonds being preferred when
they can be afforded. This use of dia--
monds is considered more chic. and is
certainly more effective than diadems,-
combs. fillets or parures.-N Y. Sun.-